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On 19 December 2000, after much strong criticism of the government coalition's proposals in the early drafting stages, the Hessian Landtag (state parliament) adopted amendments to the regional broadcasting laws, which had been improved in several respects. In the end, the Gesetz über den Hessischen Rundfunk (Hessian Broadcasting Act - HR-Gesetz) did not mention the so-called "compulsory mandate" for members of the Broadcasting Council. The original draft stated that all members of the Council could be immediately withdrawn by the organisations they represented, whereas the previous version of...

In a decision of 4 October 2000, the Verwaltungsgericht Berlin (Berlin Administrative Court) ordered, at the request of ProSieben Media AG, that its complaint against a decision by the supervisory Medienanstalt Berlin-Brandenburg (Berlin-Brandenburg Media Authority - MABB) should have suspensory effect. Following the merger of ProSieben Media AG and SAT1 Holding GmbH on 2 October 2000, ProSiebenSAT1 Media AG is the legal successor to the dissolved firm ProSieben Media AG. The case concerned advertising on ProSieben for news broadcaster N24, which is wholly owned by ProSiebenSAT1. It was alleged...

In a judgment of 24 January 2001, the Bundesverfassungsgericht (Federal Constitutional Court - BVerfG) dismissed a complaint by television broadcaster n-tv. The latter had claimed that the ban on television coverage of court proceedings contained in Section 169.2 of the Gerichtsverfassungsgesetz (Code of Judicial Organisation - GVG) was unconstitutional. Section 169.2 of the GVG bans all sound and radio/ picture recordings intended for publication. The Constitutional Court explained its decision firstly by pointing out that Article 5.1.1 of the Grundgesetz (Basic Law - GG), which guarantees the...

The Bundesgerichtshof (Federal Supreme Court) has ruled that an Australian citizen can be punished for incitement of the people under the terms of Article 130.1 and 130.3 of the Strafgesetzbuch (Criminal CodeStGB). The accused, a director of the "Adelaide Institute" in Australia, wrote, inter alia, articles in which he supported "revisionist" theories and which he posted on the Institute's home page on an Australian Internet server. In these articles, written under the pretext of scientific research, he denied that the murder of Jews under National Socialism ever took place, describing it as a...

In accordance with the Rundfunkstaatsvertrag (Agreement between Federal States on Broadcasting - RStV), the Kommission zur Ermittlung der Konzentration im Medienbereich (Commission on Concentration in the Media - KEK) must publish a report every three years on developments in concentration in private broadcasting. The report, under the title Fortschreitende Medienkonzentration im Zeichen der Konvergenz (Continuing media concentration, a sign of convergence), was published on 28 November 2000. The body responsible for controlling concentration in the broadcasting sector is meant to counter the dangers...